Device Profile - Policies Configuration

User defined profiles can be customized and assigned or automatically assigned to access points using an AP Auto-Provisioning policy. User defined profiles should be utilized in larger deployments when groups of devices (on different floors, buildings or sites) share a common configuration. Each default and user defined profile contains policies and configuration parameters. Changes made to these parameters are automatically inherited by the devices assigned to the profile.

Note

You can override the policy settings assigned to a device profile by configuring the same settings at the device level. Go to Devices <select a device> Policies.

Configure policies parameters for a device profile:

Go to Profiles <select a device profile> Policies.

Configure the device profile Policies parameters as described in Device Profile - Policy Parameters.

Table 1. Device Profile - Policy Parameters
Parameter	Description
Management Policy	Select a Management Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is default. A management policy is a mechanism to allow or deny management access for separate interfaces and protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SSH or SNMP). Management access can be enabled or turned off as required for each policy
Firewall Policy	Select a Firewall Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is default
RADIUS Server Policy	Select a RADIUS Server Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is none. A RADIUS Server policy provides customized, profile specific, management of authentication data such as username and password.
Event System Policy	Select an Event System Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is none. An Event System Policy allows the profile to capture system events and append them to a log file.
DHCPv4 Policy	Select a DHCPv4 Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is none.
Captive Portal Policy	Select a Captive Portal Policy to assign to the device profile. There is no default setting. If no policy is selected, no captive portal policy is assigned to the profile.
Bonjour Gateway Forwarding Policy	Select a Bonjour Gateway Forwarding Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is none.

Configure Auto-Provisioning Policy parameters as described in Device Profile - Auto-Provisioning Policy Parameters.

Table 2. Device Profile - Auto-Provisioning Policy Parameters
Parameter	Description
Auto-Provisioning Policy	Select an Auto-Provisioning Policy to assign to the device profile. The default setting is none. At adoption, an AP solicits and receives multiple adoption responses. These adoption responses contain preference and loading policy information the AP uses to select the optimum controller or access point for adoption. By default, an Auto-Provisioning policy generally distributes AP adoption evenly amongst available adopters.
Use NOC Auto-Provisioning Policy	Select this option to use the NOC‘s auto-provisioning policy instead of the policy local to the controller or service platform. The NOC is an elected controller or service platform capable of provisioning all of its peer controllers, service platforms and adopted devices. Options are No, Yes, and Always. The default setting is No.
Learn and Save Network Configuration	Select this option to allow the controller or service platform to maintain local configuration records of devices requesting adoption and provisioning. This feature is enabled by default

After you have completed configuring the settings, choose from the following actions:
1. Select Revert to restore default settings.
  
  Note
  You cannot restore default settings after applying or saving changes.
2. Select Apply to commit the configured settings.
  
  Note
  This does not permanently save the settings you configured. If you perform a Reload (warm reboot), applied settings will be lost.
3. Select Save to commit and save the configured settings.
  
  Note
  
  If you do not select Apply or Save, the settings that you configured are not saved when you move away from the configuration window.